Katie speaks French fluently. How does Katie speak French? Fluently
David is running quickly. How is David running? Quickly
Noha treats her friends well. How does Noha treat her friends? well
Fluently-Quickly-Well are Adverbs
Give me more examples of adverbs
I did the exam easily. He speaks loudly. She behaves badly. What does an adverb describe? An adverb describes a verb
Katie speaks French fluently How does she speak? Fluently Adverbs of manner describe how the verb is done
More examples He runs quickly. She speaks politely. It worked automatically.
Formation of Adverbs Adjectives Bad-quick-recent Possible-probable-incredible Easy-lucky-heavy Hopeful-beautiful-careful Basic-automatic Adverbs Badly-quickly-recently Possibly-probably-incredibly Easily-luckily-heavily Hopefully-beautifully-carefully Basically-automatically Rule We add (ly) to the adjective For adjectives ending in –le, we drop the- e and add -y For adjectives ending in a consonant + y, we drop the –y and add -ily For adjectives ending in –l, we add -ly For adjectives ending in –ic, we usually add -ally
Irregular adverbs Adjectives Good Fast Hard Early late High Low Right Wrong Adverbs well fast hard early late high low right wrong
Ben is a fast runner. (adjective) Ben runs fast. (adverb) He wrote the right answer. (adjective) His answer is right.(adverb)
Some adverbs have the same form as adjectives Hard, fast, high, low, early, late, right, wrong
What are the differences in meaning between each pair of adverbs? Hard-hardly Late-lately
Hard-hardly She is working hard these days. (hard= with effort) I could hardly hear him at the back. (Hardly= scarcely) (Hard –hardly) are both adverbs
Late-lately Nick arrived late at work. (late= not early) What have you been doing lately? (lately =recently) (Late-lately) are both adverbs
Friendly-likely-lively-lonely-lovely- silly- ugly Are these words adverbs as they all end in–ly? They are adjectives.
How do we form their adverbs? We use the phrase (in a …..way) to form their adverbs. He greeted me in a friendly way. She was speaking in a lively way. They behaved in a silly way.